Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Frank Berenson

Neurology Atlanta, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1689740987 CMS profile 31637

5887 Glenridge Dr Ne, Suite 140, Atlanta, GA 30328

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General payments

$527,441

2,044 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$6,965

Paid to them · 5 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$678,228 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Frank Berenson of Atlanta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $527,441 across 2,044 general payments and $6,965 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $678,228 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

10 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $86,907 313
2024 General $58,093 264
2023 General $48,780 258
2022 General $130,281 388
2021 General $64,784 299
2021 Research $1,200 1
2020 General $70,553 289
2020 Research $4,148 2
2019 General $68,042 233
2019 Research $1,618 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Frank Berenson
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Frank Berenson were reported at $86,907. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Frank Berenson Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $68,042 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $70,553 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $64,784 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $130,281 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $48,780 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $58,093 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $86,907 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $151,428 370 payments
  2. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $85,577 107 payments
  3. Lilly USA, LLC $79,616 141 payments
  4. Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. $43,406 97 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $41,968 82 payments
  6. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $28,416 40 payments
  7. Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. $27,927 54 payments
  8. Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18,220 40 payments
  9. Allergan Inc. $17,507 78 payments
  10. Upsher-Smith Laboratories LLC $9,288 72 payments
  11. Other $24,088 963 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $384,150 188 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $56,165 28 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $42,678 1,766 payments
  4. Honoraria $28,464 8 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $15,785 36 payments
  6. Education $111 16 payments
  7. Grant $88 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UBRELVY $97,895 165 payments
  2. QULIPTA $90,307 216 payments
  3. NURTEC ODT Primary Care $46,147 94 payments
  4. AJOVY Central Nervous System $44,530 53 payments
  5. EMGALITY $43,769 69 payments
  6. Ajovy Central Nervous System $40,923 46 payments
  7. Symbravo $27,861 25 payments
  8. REYVOW $26,469 35 payments
  9. NURTEC ODT Pain $25,251 70 payments
  10. Trudhesa $22,359 44 payments
  11. Other $89,546 1,374 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Eli Lilly and Company $6,965 5 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 5 drugs

Part D claims

86

Median for Psychiatry & Neurology: 100

Drug cost

$55,043

Median for Psychiatry & Neurology: $2,986

Branded share of claims

62.8%

Median for Psychiatry & Neurology: 16.2%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 17 $26,816
Reyvow Lasmiditan Succinate Brand 21 $14,935
Emgality Pen Galcanezumab-Gnlm Brand 16 $13,087
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 16 $145
Pregabalin Generic 16 $59

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 10,755 Part D prescribers listed as Psychiatry & Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 33 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
QULIPTA
$28,424 — —
UBRELVY
$24,684 — —
Qelbree
$468 — —
NURTEC ODT
$392 17 —
Epidiolex
$319 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

2,049 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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